EJToday: Top Headlines

Cicada-Geddon Invaders Coming. It’s The Biggest Bug Emergence In Centuries [9]

"Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [15], 04/02/2024
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"Inside Bayer’s State-by-State Efforts to Stop Pesticide Lawsuits" [16]

"As the agrichemical giant lays groundwork to fend off Roundup litigation, its use of a playbook for building influence in farm state legislatures has the potential to benefit pesticide companies nationwide."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Civil Eats [21], 04/01/2024
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"EPA Cracks Down On Truck Emissions" [22]

"The Biden administration rolled out another rulemaking central to its climate agenda with a regulation slashing pollution from heavy-duty trucks."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Pollution [25]
Transportation [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [27], 04/01/2024
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Study Says Since 1979 Climate Change Has Made Heat Waves Longer, Hotter [28]

"Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds."

Climate Change [23]
Environmental Health [19]
Public [13]
International [29]
Source: AP [30], 04/01/2024
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Uranium Being Mined Near Grand Canyon As Prices Soar, US Pushes Nuclear Power [31]

"The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s."

Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [32]
Natural Resources [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Pollution [25]
Waste [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [35]
Source: AP [36], 04/01/2024
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"Iowa Official Finds Dead Fish In 50 Miles Of Fertilizer-Contaminated River" [37]

"State conservation officials have found no living fish in the East Nishnabotna River south of Red Oak — the result of a massive fertilizer spill at a farmers cooperative."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [18]
Disasters [38]
Fish & Fisheries [39]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [41]
Source: Iowa Capital Dispatch [42], 04/01/2024
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EV Charging Stations Key To Biden Climate Agenda, Yet Only 4 States Have Them [43]

"LONDON, Ohio — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.

Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging stations between his home in Indianapolis and Allegheny National Forest in western Pennsylvania.
Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Infrastructure [44]
Transportation [26]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: AP [45], 04/01/2024
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"Chocolate Prices To Keep Rising As West Africa’s Cocoa Crisis Deepens" [46]

"Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Today, less than a dozen remain."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [18]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [38]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [25]
Public [13]
Africa [47]
Source: Reuters [48], 04/01/2024
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"Mining Fight on the Okefenokee Swamp’s Edge May Have Only Just Begun" [49]

"Legislation to protect critical wetlands faces uncertainty as titanium mine moves closer to permitting."

Biodiversity [10]
Natural Resources [11]
Pollution [25]
Water & Oceans [40]
Public [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution [51], 04/01/2024
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Last Coal-Burning Power Plant In New England Set To Close. Enviros Win. [52]

"The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and protests, is set to close in a victory for environmentalists."

Climate Change [23]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Pollution [25]
Public [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [53]
Source: AP [54], 04/01/2024
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"A River in Flux" [55]

"Extreme flooding and droughts may be the new norm for the Amazon, challenging its people and ecosystems."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [38]
Natural Resources [11]
Water & Oceans [40]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
South America [56]
Source: Inside Climate News [57], 04/01/2024
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"Chevron Owns This City’s News Site. Many Stories Aren’t Told." [58]

"The oil and gas company-owned Richmond Standard tells mostly positive stories about the major industry that dominates this California city and its skyline."

Chemicals [18]
Climate Change [23]
Disasters [38]
Energy & Fuel [24]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [32]
Environmental Politics [59]
Journalism & Media [60]
Pollution [25]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [61]
Source: Floodlight/NPR [62], 03/29/2024
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"Biden ESA Rules Reverse Trump Moves And Revive Big Debate" [63]

"The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries reimposed stricter Endangered Species Act rules Thursday that reverse some of the Trump administration’s most controversial environment-related initiatives."

Biodiversity [10]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [11]
Wildlife [12]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: E&E News [64], 03/29/2024
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"Aerial Surveys Show US Landfills Are Major Source Of Methane Emissions" [65]

"Over half of U.S. landfills observed by aerial surveys are super-emitting sources of methane, according to a new study in the journal Science published on Thursday.
The study is the largest assessment to date of methane from landfills, the third-largest source of U.S. methane emissions, and suggests an opportunity to tackle climate change by targeting a prevalent and potent greenhouse gas."

Chemicals [18]
Climate Change [23]
Infrastructure [44]
Pollution [25]
Waste [34]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [66], 03/29/2024
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Calif. Latino Communities Most at Risk From Brain-Damaging Weed Killer [67]

"Growers’ use of the neurotoxic weed killer paraquat is concentrated in just five agricultural counties, leaving low-income Latinos disproportionately exposed to a chemical linked to Parkinson’s disease, a new analysis shows."

Agriculture [17]
Chemicals [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Environmental Justice [32]
Laws & Regulations [20]
People & Population [68]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [14]
California [61]
Source: Inside Climate News [69], 03/29/2024
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